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by orion70
Wed Aug 05, 2009 6:59 am
Forum: Announcement Board
Topic: VIC-20 Software Releases of 2009
Replies: 32
Views: 82382

Name: Green on Black compilation Author: various authors Released: August 5, 2009 Requirements: VIC-20 +16K/24K RAM Description: Conversion of 20 games from PET to FAT40 -powered VIC-20 by Orion70 . Single-file, crunch and games loader by nbla000 . It contains 20 titles, ranging from text adventures...
by orion70
Wed Aug 05, 2009 6:18 am
Forum: Games
Topic: Green on Black game compilation
Replies: 25
Views: 13248

Green on Black game compilation

Hi there, here's my new compilation of games converted from PET to the 40-column FAT40-powered VIC. It contains 20 titles, ranging from text adventures (of course :wink: ) to strategy, from flight simulation to card games. All for the 16K or 24K expanded VIC-20. Some of the games - e.g. Island of Se...
by orion70
Mon Aug 03, 2009 7:30 am
Forum: Games
Topic: Wanna make money in these canicular days?
Replies: 10
Views: 5006

Yep, too bad being back to work - and no lemonade to drink :D .
by orion70
Mon Aug 03, 2009 1:06 am
Forum: Games
Topic: Wanna make money in these canicular days?
Replies: 10
Views: 5006

Thanks Formater! :D

I will include this game in a compilation of about 20 titles converted from PET. I'm currently working on game one-filing and crunching, thanks to Nicola (nbla000). :wink:
by orion70
Fri Jul 24, 2009 2:35 am
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Demotion
Replies: 33
Views: 5396

You think so, because you are "just pitcalco"! :D

Seriously speaking: not a bad list, I'd only switch "Zealot" to "Zealous". :wink:
by orion70
Fri Jul 24, 2009 1:02 am
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Demotion
Replies: 33
Views: 5396

Full list of ranks please - otherwise, I'm gonna call all my fellow patriots and cut some throat... :twisted:
by orion70
Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:56 am
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Demotion
Replies: 33
Views: 5396

Vic 20 Zealot
Zealot???? :?
by orion70
Thu Jul 23, 2009 1:03 am
Forum: General Topics
Topic: 40 column word processor?
Replies: 15
Views: 4858

Strange things happen. The program seems to work "as is" in VICE with 8K+ RAM, but if I stop it and LIST, the end of BASIC listing seems to be somehow corrupted (random chars, pi greek, etc.). Setting RAM to 16K or to full blocks and loading FAT40 before, it doesn't work at all: http://sit...
by orion70
Thu Jul 23, 2009 12:58 am
Forum: Games
Topic: Wanna make money in these canicular days?
Replies: 10
Views: 5006

carlsson wrote:I'm not saying I'll convert this game to 22 columns, just presenting a possible layout. Whether the program will easily adopt to this layout is another matter.
OK Anders, I'm leaving for the seaside (one week). I'll see what I can do when I come back, after few lemonades :P .
by orion70
Wed Jul 22, 2009 4:28 am
Forum: Games
Topic: Wanna make money in these canicular days?
Replies: 10
Views: 5006

Not that I know of - but relocating graphics is so annoying, I'll leave it to you as you did for Weather. :P
by orion70
Wed Jul 22, 2009 3:18 am
Forum: Announcement Board
Topic: VIC-20 Software Releases of 2009
Replies: 32
Views: 82382

Name: Lemonade Author: Mark D. Rejhon Conversion to FAT40 -powered VIC-20 by Orion70 Released: July 22, 2009 Requirements: VIC-20 +16K RAM Description: Conversion from Commodore 64 of a classic Lemonade Stand managing game. Your goal in this fun little game will be to make as much money as you can w...
by orion70
Wed Jul 22, 2009 3:17 am
Forum: Games
Topic: Wanna make money in these canicular days?
Replies: 10
Views: 5006

Wanna make money in these canicular days?

... try opening your own Lemonade Stand!!! http://www.sunrisegrocery.com/images/lemonadeStand.jpg Here 's a quick conversion from a public domain C64 game. It's for 16K expanded VIC, and it runs in 40 column mode. First you have to load'n'run 40COL, then LOAD"LEMONADE",8 and RUN. Have fun!...
by orion70
Wed Jul 22, 2009 1:02 am
Forum: Emulation and Cross Development
Topic: Is VICE really as good as it gets?
Replies: 17
Views: 5199

All the multi-part disk games I know don't need true drive emulation. Most demo disks do require it though.
by orion70
Wed Jul 22, 2009 12:59 am
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Favorite .tap file?
Replies: 9
Views: 1704

As a kid, I was attracted by tape magazines sold in the newsstand circa 1982-85. I mention this in this old thread (links not working, you can find the tape images here ). The software in those cassettes was very simple, ranging from arcades to utilities, including home inventory, diet, and predicti...
by orion70
Tue Jul 21, 2009 7:30 am
Forum: International VIC
Topic: Giochi dalla rivista Paper Soft / Italian type-ins (ITA/ENG)
Replies: 162
Views: 138372

DIFESA (VIC + 3K expansion)
di J.K. Williamson trad. e adatt. di F. Sarcina

Data entry and debugging by ORION70

Paper Soft anno II N.15 (19/04/1985).

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